Note: Along with the Sub-Mariner Atlantis first appeared in an eight-page story in
Motion Picture Funnies Weekly, a black and white promotional give-away intended to be distributed at
movie theatres by the Funnies Incorporated studio. The project was aborted and the seven of only eight samples
created to send to theater owners were discovered in the estate of publisher Lloyd Jacquet in 1974.

The original eight-page origin of the Sub-Mariner, created by Bill Everett, were expanded to 12 pages and
printed in Marvel Comics #1, the first retail comic published by Timely Comics, later renamed Atlas then Marvel Comics.

Creator

Bill Everett

Note: The myth of Atlantis was first mentioned in literature by the Greek philosopher Plato
in a parable about the perils of worshiping false gods.

Origin

In ages past a samll continent in the Atlantic Ocean became the cradle of an advanced civilization known as Atlantis.
When an earthquake caused the continent to sink into the ocean the civilization died, but their structures and technology
remained upon the ocean floor until it was discovered by an aquatic offshoot of humanity over 10,000 years ago, giving rise
to an undersea Atlantis.